TOP 10 REASONS WHY WOMEN SHOULD VOTE - #1

- In the 90th anniversary year of the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, is there any better way that we could celebrate - THAN TO VOTE !!!!!

TOP 10 REASONS WHY WOMEN SHOULD VOTE - #2

- despite arrests and violent treatment in prison, women continued to picket the White House during 1917, until President Woodrow Wilson agreed to support the "right to vote amendment." Remember these women and their courage. VOTE TOMORROW!

VOTING RIGHTS ACT OF 1965

On this day, 45 years ago, this passed into law. It was the culmination of years of struggle to enact the right to vote, for former slaves, first granted in the 15th Amendment in 1870.
Local and state authorities had used many ways to prevent or delay former slaves from voting. Law suits had not worked to open up the process and encourage voter registration. Following the murders surrounding the Selma to Montgomery March in Alabama, Congress found the will to overcome the opposition and bring this issue to become law. It took 95 years!

Our whole nation is better for having more of us involved in the voting process!

http://www.justice.gov/crt/voting/intro/intro_b.php

ABOLITIONISTS AND WOMEN WORKED TOGETHER

Many of the women and men, who worked for the establishment of women’s rights, were also committed to abolition and the establishment of human rights for slaves. So it is appropriate and poignant that the 14th Amendment advanced the rights of both groups.

http://www.archives.gov/legislative/features/suffrage/index.html
http://www.archives.gov/legislative/features/suffrage/index.html

She Tried To Vote

If you read the second sentence of the 14th Amendment below you may think, as Susan B. Anthony did, that it at last allowed former slaves and women the right to vote. So as a test she voted in the presidential election of 1872. She was promptly arrested, tried before a judge, and convicted. She refused to pay the fine, and the case was never taken to a higher court.

“No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” Ratified in 1868.


http://www.usconstitution.net/xconst_Am14.html

Failure Is Impossible

FAILURE IS IMPOSSIBLE As you can imagine history brought together some extraordinary people to win the right for women to vote. In 1995 The National Archives celebrated the ratification of the 19th Amendment with a script that brought together the voices of many who made it happen. PEACE

http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/woman-suffrage/script.html

15th Amendment to the Constitution

It was in 1870 that the 15th Amendment granted African American MEN the rights of citizens to vote. However with poll taxes, literacy tests and in other ways most were prevented from registering to vote until the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Do you know when women won the right to vote? I say won because it was a long fight. Watch tomorrow to learn how long it took.

http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/15thamendment.html